Why are my auto-implemented properties working in ASP.NET 2.0?

Question

I\'m using the auto-implemented properties syntax in the C# source files of my ASP.NET Web Application:

public int IdUser { get; set; }
...
this.IdUser = 1;
         


        

Answer 1

As @Jakub said, it is backwards compatible. For example you can also use implicitly declared variables (var i = 1; //i is int), though they were also only introduced in C#3.0!